Thursday, September 30, 2010

Obama's Animal House

Caught bits of President Obama's visit to Madison, Wisconsin on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.  You know it's gotten really bad for BHO when even Jon Stewart makes fun of you.  The president's speech to the crowded quad at the University of Wisconsin was angry, confused, accusatory and belittling.  And those were the parts directed at his supporters!  He can't seem to get beyond the car-in-the-ditch scenario, and with each passing attempt he adds another layer of stupidity and silliness.  The latest version has Republicans drinking Slurpees as he and the Democrats continue to operate a stalled vehicle which incidentally, remains in the ditch.  I thought the stimulus, the bailouts, the buyouts, Obamacare and quarterly extensions of unemployment benefits had already pulled the car from the ditch?  Why are we still in the ditch Mr. President?

Meanwhile, a number of top, key officials have vacated or will soon depart Obama's broken down jalopy of hope, leaving behind a back seat full of empty promises, discarded dreams, and other progressive detritus collected along the way of their two-year road trip.  Back at the frat house, media pundits are speculating on which brother or sister of Phi Delta Obama will step up to repair the damage.  The reality is that nobody the White House names to replace the freshman class of 2012 will do any better.  How can they?  They all drink from the same trash barrel of ideas and their biggest supplier of grain alcohol is their leader Barry.

I'm sure Dean Vernon Wormer would agree that oblivious, deceitful and arrogant is no way to go through life either, unless of course your subjects can be kept fat, drunk and stupid on liberal bromides like universal healthcare, transfer payments, cap and tax, etc.  Thankfully, main street Americans have seen through the hazing and are poised to put Phi Delta Obama on double secret probation beginning this November.  

Monday, September 20, 2010

Obama's Keynesian Juggernaut

My takeaway from President Obama's much heralded (if you pay attention to CNBC) economic town hall meeting with a live audience on CNBC is this; The Obama administration wishes to raise taxes on individuals making over $250,000, tax capital gains at least an additional 5%, and capture additional taxes through financial regulation of Wall Street, because they are going to continue to spend massive amounts on new and existing government programs.  If the president's visit was intended to deflate a growing sense of unease or that his administration is anti-business, I thing Mr. Obama sorely missed the mark.  Once again, a golden opportunity to reposition himself as a defender of free market principles was squandered.

Friday, September 17, 2010

Why Christine O'Donnell Will Win

Washington power brokers and media elites from both sides of the aisle are dead wrong.  Not only can Christine O'Donnell win a U. S. Senate seat in Delaware, she will.  Why?  Because in today's charged atmosphere, fueled by tea party activists' enthusiasm and zeal to roll back, repeal, or otherwise dispense of anything and everything that Obama has stood for, the last thing even the voters of purple Delaware will do is to secure another vote for Barack Obama.  So, not only will Ms. O'Donnell beat Democrat Chris Coons,  I would venture to say that she would very likely beat President Obama if he was on the ballot this November.

Washington and the media just don't get it.  They are stuck in the double standards and non sequiturs of liberal dominated group think.  So, all the sudden Christine O'Donnell's past tax problems are an issue?  Ask Tim Geithner if his past indiscretions with the IRS were an obstacle to his cushy job at the U. S. Treasury Department.  Or for that matter, that almost $1,000,000 is owed by 41 people who work in the White House for President Obama.  Or another $9.3 million is due the IRS from those who work on Capitol Hill.  How about the fact that a total of $1 billion is owed by federal workers!  Peanuts in comparison to what is estimated to be $11,000 owed by Ms. O'Donnell.

My advice to Christine O'Donnell is to take care of your past mistakes as quickly as possible.  Don't let the media hang things on you that don't seem to stick to others.  Stay upbeat, positive, and eager to do the right things now.  Big guns are pointed at your direction.  The good news is that they are useless against our fervor.    
 

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The Kenyan

No he didn't.  Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich better not have called President Barack Obama a Kenyan, because if he did...oh boy...well, he just better not have.  What?  That was basically the response yesterday morning from the Morning Joe crowd on MSNBC.  Charles Blow from the New York Times, called Newt's statement "outrageous" and "incomprehensible".  He also said it was "one the most inflammatory things I have ever heard."  Time magazine's Mark Halperin questioned why Newt "keeps being allowed to say these things."  What for God's sake did Newt say to warrant such scorn and contempt?  
"What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?"  - Newt Gingrich
Wow!  What?  Honestly, does this statement sound outrageous, incomprehensible, or even close to being inflammatory?  Of course not.  That's because you are a sensible human being and not predisposed to believing everything you hear from conservatives is either tinged with racism or just plain awful.  White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that Gingrich was "trying to appeal to the fringe of people who don't think the president was born in this country."  Perhaps.  Better yet, maybe Mr. Gingrich was just agreeing with an article in Forbes.com, called How Obama Thinks, written by Dinesh D'Souza.  Dinesh D'Souza is the president of King's College in New York City and is the author of an upcoming book called The Roots of Obama's Rage.


The article opens with this paragraph: "Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. Thanks to him the era of big government is back. Obama runs up taxpayer debt not in the billions but in the trillions. He has expanded the federal government's control over home mortgages, investment banking, health care, autos and energy. TheWeekly Standard summarizes Obama's approach as omnipotence at home, impotence abroad."  Yes, go on.  The author then goes on to explain that Obama's policies front a national and international agenda that is so "bizarre" it must be the result of Barack Obama channeling his deceased father Barack Obama Sr., an anti-colonial Luo tribesman who spoke out against European control of Africa.  "Anti-colonialism is the doctrine that rich countries of the West got rich by invading, occupying and looting poor countries of Asia, Africa and South America."

For my money, the article paints a pretty conclusive story on what makes Barack Obama tick, and why on earth he does the ridiculous and destructive things that he does.    


 

Monday, September 13, 2010

Word Up

"Enough is Enough!", is the tag line on Dr. Dan Benishek's campaign material, the Republican candidate for Congress in Michigan's 1st District.  He is running to fill the seat vacated by the retirement of Democrat Bart Stupak.  His website http://danbenishekforcongress.com/ also proclaims "Read it...Reduce it...Repeal it...Reform it."  Sound advice if you ask me. 

Double Doocy

An unfortunate and scary trend in cable news is developing and should be nipped in the bud asap.  No, it is not the seemingly hip back-and-forth style "gotcha" segments between cable "news" shows like Comedy Central's Daily Show with Jon Stewart, or whatever progressive miscreant on MSNBC has with Fox News.  No, it is much more hideous and detrimental to the American psyche than that.  I am talking about the extremely unnecessary and inane practice of putting the offspring of news anchors or personalities on the tube.  Maybe a good five cent cigar isn't what the American people need anymore, but I can assure you we do not need anymore Doocy!

I don't know how long Peter Doocy, the son of Fox & Friends' Steve Doocy has been an on air  contributor to Fox News, but seeing him yesterday was enough for me.  Ditto to the cherubic Luke Russert, the son of the late Meet the Press host Tim Russert.  What began innocently enough several years ago, with Fox News' Chris Wallace following in the footsteps of his dad Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes fame, has escalated into theatre of the absurd.  Why must the American audience be subjected to what anyone besides their immediate family see as the equivalent to a performance in an elementary school recital? Enough with the nepotistic practices of cable news programming.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Obstructed Vision

I just watched President Obama try and explain why the unemployment rate just went up, even after all the hard work that he has done to put the U.S. on a path to recovery and prosperity.  Like an overweight child, our economy just won't behave like it's supposed to, even after a strict diet of sticky sweet stimulus, additional rewards, and effusive praise for sitting on the couch and not going out to play.   Our President continues to plead with us to just bear with him, that this economy took years to get this way and it might take a similar amount of time to properly recover.  He remains confident that things are going in the right direction.  Really Mr. President, the right direction?  Based on what evidence?  A clear majority of Americans do not believe we are headed in the right direction.  I suspect a clear majority of those same Americans believe that if we continue with the policies of this administration, things can and will get considerably worse.

Honestly, how does he see that an exponential growth in spending will reduce the deficit?  How can he be trusted to curtail entitlements, when he expands them?  How can he cut unemployment when everything he's for encourages it?  None of this makes sense to us anymore and he and his party are feeling it.  But it's our fault.  In a column in the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson says the "American people are acting like a bunch of spoiled brats."  We just don't understand the wisdom behind Obama or his parties' policies or tactics.

Thank God that for many Americans, the beginning of the end of Obamanomics may be just a few weeks away.  The American electorate is poised to sweep away the Democrat majority who through their own policies have obstructed the path to their own sustainability.  Republicans offer a renewed vision for long-term economic growth and personal well-being.